Re: Oracle Licensing on VMware

From: Paresh Yadav <yparesh_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:04:54 -0400
Message-ID: <CAPXEL0KdmgXMdgBK+6ovmRcBLi3yaUcaHJL07B36SVrVgrkpYw_at_mail.gmail.com>

Thanks Jeremy and Hans.
It is sad to see Oracle killing their own business. One of the mid size organization that I know of moved from Oracle to Postgres (with curtailed business functionality) as Oracle out priced themselves even after negotiations and steep discounts (I believe licensing of Dev/Test environments is what killed the deal) . I guess overall Oracle makes more money with this strategy so loosing few small customers hardly matters to them.

Thanks
Paresh
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> My rule of thumb is:
>
> If it can save the organization money, or if it can earn the
> organization money, Oracle wants their piece of the action and will send
> in the hounds to get it.
>
> If the 'non production servers' are there to help dev and/or test, they
> are definitely in one of the above categories, because the alternative
> would be to shut down prod to do the dev or test.
>
> Check http://www.oracle.com/pricing for more, but it basically depends
> on the license terms you have negotiated with Oracle.
>
> Just my $0.02
> /Hans
>
> On 15/10/2013 12:01 PM, Paresh Yadav wrote:
> > May be this is a right time to ask.... Do we need to purchase license
> for *non
> > production servers* where Oracle database is installed? I have heard many
> > answers (listed below) over last 15 years including Oracle reps and will
> > love to get a definitive answers.
> > - No license purchase is necessary for non prod instances
> > - Yes, but only after the project goes live
> > - unlimited non prod licenses are covered by becoming Oracle partner
> > - Yes but never bother as Oracle never bothers about Auditing non
> prod
> > instances
> > - Test instances are treated just like prod instances. Above
> scenarios
> > applies to Dev instances only
> > - Probably there are few other answers that I can't remember
> >
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